Monday, September 8, 2014

The Louise Loves Art Trifecta

The Nerdy Book Club, Colby Sharp, and I joined forces to celebrate Kelly Light's Louise Loves Art. We hope you love Louise, her little brother, and her black cat as much as we do.

Have fun jumping from blog to blog!

I wrote the words in red, and Kelly Light wrote the words in black. Thank you, Kelly!

The book trailer for Louise Loves Art was
the first time I have participated in anything animated since 1995. (I was 25
then) When I saw the first pencil test, my heart nearly burst with happiness.

The idea for Louise Loves Art was a
combination of remembering who I was as a kid who was obsessed with art,
watching my own daughter fall in love with drawing and thinking about how
little importance was placed on visual art in her elementary school education.

Louise and her brother are like most
younger/older siblings who may annoy each other from time to time, but always,
love each other.

I hope art teachers get more attention
for the work they do cultivating young imaginations.

Mr. Schu, you should have asked me about “The Cat” in the Louise books! The
cat, like a lot of things in Louise’s world is something from my own world. I
had a black cat for 11 years, named Anakin, that I loved so much. I always
wanted a black cat because I grew up watching Laverne and Shirley and always
wanted my own Boo Boo Kitty!! So the cat in the book resembles Boo Boo Kitty
and has a secret name.

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About Mr. Schu

I am a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University and the Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic. I work diligently to put the right book in every child's hand. Book trailers are one way to connect readers with books. (All opinions shared are on own.)